In October 1934, after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Red Army was forced to withdraw from the base area on October 16, 1934 and carry out the Long March in order to get rid of the encirclement and pursuit of the Kuomintang army.
In the early days of the Long March, the "left" opportunists practiced escapism, blindly fleeing, and passively avoiding war. Although the heroic Red Army successively broke through the enemy's four major blockade lines and reached the area west of the Xiang River, it suffered heavy losses. The Red Army was reduced from more than 80,000 at the time of departure to 30,000 after crossing the Xiang River, and the number of the Red Eighth Army was revoked.
At the critical juncture of the life and death of the Red Army, the first leader changed direction and advanced to Guizhou, where the enemy's forces were weak. In January 1935, the Red Army broke through the Wujiang River, captured Zunyi City, and held a meeting to establish the correct leadership headed by the first party. After the Zunyi Conference, under the personal leadership of the Red Army, it fought in the border areas of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan, crossed the Chishui River four times, annihilated a large number of enemy troops, and crossed the Wujiang River to the south by surprise, approaching Guiyang, and then marched west to Yunnan, rushed to cross the Jinsha River, got rid of the encirclement and interception of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and achieved a decisive victory in the Long March.
In May 1935, the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River and crossed the Jiajin Mountain. In June, they arrived at Maogong in western Sichuan, joined up with the Fourth Front Army, and then marched north together, crossing the Daxue Mountains and reaching the Maoergai area. In September, it reaches the areas of Brazil, Kuraza, and Aba through the wilderness and muddy meadows.
Zhang Guotao, the leader of the Red Fourth Front Army, openly disobeyed the order and led the Red Fourth Front Army to the south, the Red Army. **He*** adhered to the policy of going north to resist Japan, led the main force of the Red Army to continue to advance north along the Bailongjiang River, captured Lazikou, and successively broke through the blockade line between Weishui, Huining and Jingning and Pingliang to Guyuan, and successfully arrived at Wuqi Town in northern Shaanxi in October 1935 to join the 15th Army Corps in northern Shaanxi.
In November 1935, the Red Second Front Army, which began the Long March, set out from the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou base areas, passed through Hunan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and arrived in the Xikangganzi area in July 1936 to join the Red Fourth Front Army. After Zhang Guotao's ** conspiracy was crushed, the first.
The 2nd and 4th Front Armies immediately marched north, crossed the grasslands, crossed the Min Mountains, and arrived at Huining, Gansu Province in October, where they joined the 1st Front Army. At this point, this great strategic transfer of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army came to a triumphant end.
In the course of this great strategic transfer, the Red Army fought more than 380 battles, captured more than 700 county seats, passed through 14 provinces, crossed 18 mountains, crossed 24 rivers, walked through barren grasslands, climbed over snow-capped mountains, traveled about 25,000 miles, known as the "25,000-mile Long March" in history.
** In "On the Strategy of Opposing Imperialism", he wrote: "The Long March is the first time in historical records, the Long March is a manifesto, the Long March is a propaganda team, and the Long March is a seeding machine."